Recruitment – Laura A. Paul

Experimental Evidence on Undergraduate Recruitment: Lessons from Creating a Subject Pool Registry

Laura Paul, Leah Palm-Forster, and Kent Messer Recruitment of subjects is a critical step for any data collection. This project aims to identify the best practices for inviting university students by email to register for a program. We are creating a recruitment pool for future experiments at a large research university in the mid-Atlantic. OurContinue reading “Experimental Evidence on Undergraduate Recruitment: Lessons from Creating a Subject Pool Registry”

Collin Weigel, Laura Paul, Paul Ferraro, and Kent Messer Featured Article in the AEPP. First published: 28 September 2020. Available at https://doi.org/10.1002/aepp.13066 Abstract: To develop evidence-based agricultural policies, researchers increasingly use insights from economic field experiments. These insights are often limited by the challenges of recruiting large and representative samples of farmers. To improve theContinue reading “Challenges in Recruiting U.S. Farmers for Policy-Relevant Economic Field Experiments”